Gnome Stew is happy to announce the winners of our recent contest. But first, let me tell you about my character…

Flandag is a wizard, but not just ANY wizard — the greatest wizard who ever lived. He is centuries old, and has a magical horse named Shadowemail. His most powerful spell, oddly enough, is Light, or maybe Telekinesis. Either way, he’s badass.

Flandag travels with a friend — a Tibboh, kind of like a halfling — named Bingo. (I was originally thinking of naming him Bilbo — boy did I dodge a bullet there! *) I plan on having them save the world by not using the most powerful magic item ever created. I am literally awestruck by my originality — can you believe that Flandag just came to me? I can’t. I mean, BAM — just like that.

Just kidding, of course — I just needed to fill up enough space to keep the winner’s names from showing up on the front page of the site. (* For the record, Bilbo was originally named Bingo; Tolkien — thankfully — changed his mind.)

Dice Set Winners

Courtesy of Game Master Dice, two dice sets will shortly be winging their way to…

Custom Gnome Stew Dice Bag Winner

It was awesome to see how all over the map folks were on this one. The lowest guess was 202 (from brcarl), the highest was 4,234 (from Tallarn). There were, in fact, 1,687 dice in that picture.

The Winner: With thanks to Marsbarn Designs, we’re pleased to announce the winner of the custom Gnome Stew dice bag: TheEmrys, with an amazingly accurate guess of 1,654 dice — just 33 under!

Dice winners BlueDress and The Flame Beneath the Ice, I’ve sent out your email info to the fellow who’s handling your prizes. He’ll get in touch with you directly for more details. TheEmrys, I’ve emailed you requesting your mailing address.

Our thanks to everyone who entered, and I hope you had fun with this contest!

About Martin Ralya

A father, husband, writer, small-press publisher, former RPG industry freelancer, and lifelong geek, Martin has been gaming since 1987 and GMing since 1989. He lives in Utah with his amazing wife Alysia and their awesome daughter Lark in a house full of books and games.

Take THAT, ex-roommates! Maybe you have my old dice, but my new collection shall become more powerful than ever before!

#7 Comment By itliaf On January 14, 2009 @ 3:31 pm

Flandag reminds me of Baron Edgar Polishedbackstory. He was a vampire and undisputed champion of night waterskiing. He carried around a set of dueling pistols called ‘The Moldovan Caper’ that never needed to be reloaded and if fired simultaneously could actually hit three targets at once. His eyes smoldered with animal sexuality he used bring down three rival clans of Lycan tubers. His eternal (and awesome) torment was ended when he tried to ski across a river that some had convinced him was just a skinny lake.

@Symbolis – I’d forgotten about that post! The one I had in mind was also on EN World, but it was a poll asking how many dice people had; that was the first time I counted my collection. I think the timeframe was similar.

And no, not a spree — although picking up an additional 350+ dice since then is like, what, 100 dice a year? That’s…actually a little bit scary. Maybe I need therapy?

#11 Comment By Symbolis On January 15, 2009 @ 6:44 am

Maybe you need more dice!

#12 Comment By Martin Ralya On January 15, 2009 @ 7:59 am

@Symbolis – That IS a compelling argument! I concur and wish to subscribe to your newsletter.

#13 Comment By The Flame Beneath The Ice On January 16, 2009 @ 5:36 am

OMG, I entered because I had nothing better to do at the moment and… I’ve won a set of dice?! I can’t believe it O.O

Anyway… I’m “a bit” far… Italy… will you send them here as well?

#14 Comment By Wordman On January 19, 2009 @ 5:25 pm

What was the mean guess? If the book “Wisdom of Crowds” is correct, it should be pretty close.